Himawari Pediatric Visiting Nursing Station

Himawari Garden Place (訪問看護ひまわりガーデンプレイス), operated by Green Lab Co., is a visiting nursing station (訪問看護ステーション) in Shinagawa ward, Tokyo that supports families through the pre and postnatal period, childhood, and school refusal or developmental concerns. A nurse comes to the home to help with the everyday realities parents struggle to carry alone: a child who cannot get up for school, developmental delays while療育 waitlists stay full, exhausting twin or multiple-birth care, and the tearful, sleepless weeks after a birth. Families can reach out even before there is a diagnosis or a program name attached to the problem.

The service has two tracks. The first is medical-insurance visiting nursing for pre and postnatal families, children refusing or reluctant to attend school, and multiple-birth households, which requires a doctor’s judgment and a visiting nursing instruction sheet (訪問看護指示書) to begin. The second is a private-pay sitter and daily-support service staffed by people with medical knowledge, covering supervision, outing accompaniment, and rest time for parents, without replacing medical care or emergency response. The station also supports medically complex children (医療的ケア児) at home after NICU discharge or with pediatric intractable conditions, including care for a child with a tracheostomy who needs frequent suctioning, and it sets up an emergency contact system for families under contract. Intake starts through a LINE conversation about the family’s current situation.

Visiting nursing covers Shinagawa, Meguro, Minato, and Ota wards, reached by electric bicycle, while the private sitter service can extend across the Tokyo 23 wards and nearby areas by arrangement. The team includes a certified psychiatric nurse with 28 years of clinical experience and a nurse with over 30 years working with children and families at a childcare center for medically complex children, so parents’ own mental health and postnatal recovery are treated as part of the picture, not an afterthought. The station is near Musashi-koyama and Fudomae stations on the Tokyu Meguro line, and is open seven days a week from 9am, with Thursday afternoons partly reserved for staff training. The entire site is in Japanese with no English support noted, so foreign residents will likely want an interpreter or a bilingual helper to arrange visits.